YTB Gallery brings together a night of performances and screenings entitled Truth Be Told, June 11th at the Revue Cinema co-presented with Art For Eternity. A selection of six young, Toronto-based artists present film, video, and performance work telling histories, jokes, deep truths and canny untruths. Mingling performative disruptions and flowing narratives, these artists play with stories and their dual power— conjuring telling as an insistence on erased histories, or as a method of bending the truth to unsettle and delight. Somewhere in the act of telling, these artists build rich and sumptuous new worlds: cautionary, wish-fulfilling, or utopian.

Artists
Sharlene Bamboat
Jessica Kichoncho Karuhanga
Alvis Parsley
Christopher Lacroix and afallen horse 
Neil Lapierre
Rebecca Fin Simonetti

Curated by Alison Cooley and Humboldt Magnussen

Alvis Parsley, Great Glassies Corporation. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson

Neil LaPierre, Baby's Night 1/2 (one half). Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Alvis Parsley, Great Glassies Corporation. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Alvis Parsley, Great Glassies Corporation. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Alvis Parsley, Great Glassies Corporation. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

YTB Co-Founders Marjan Verstappen and Humboldt Magnussen. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Neil LaPierre, Baby's Night 1/2 (one half). Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Neil LaPierre, Baby's Night 1/2 (one half). Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Christopher Lacroix & afallenhorse, First Things First. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Truth Be Told co-curators Humboldt Magnussen and Alison Cooley. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

YTB Board Member Han Zhang. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

YTB Co-Founder Marjan Verstappen with Board Member Geneviève Wallen. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

YTB Co-Founder Marjan Verstappen with Board Member Geneviève Wallen. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

YTB Board Member Geneviève Wallen. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

YTB Co-Founder Humboldt Magnussen with Board Member Han Zhang. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Art for Eternity co-curator Veronique Vallieres with Truth be Told co-curators Humboldt Magnussen and Alison Cooley. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Truth Be Told co-curators Humboldt Magnussen and Alison Cooley. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Some of the YTB Co-Founders and Board at the Revue Cinema.

Truth Be Told at the Revue Cinema. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Alvis Parsley, Great Glassies Corporation. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Neil LaPierre, Baby's Night 1/2 (one half). Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

Christopher Lacroix and afallenhorse, First Things First. Photo: Joan Lillian Wilson.

YTB Co-Founders and Board with Veronique Vallieres and Phil Boston of Art for Eternity.